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They all look very nice!Have you ever considered to create a larger diorama, involving a number of these creatures together? I would love to see such a scene! The vegetation might be some challenge, though.

Giganotosaurus carolinii, 1/72, David Krentz, Shapeways (WSF)Unfortunately its only avaiable in WSF-(white strong flexible). Forget about sanding, it won't work. Fortunately the details are prominent enough to paint them in a reasonable way. But FUD (frosted ultra detail) would be of course much better.Paint-reference is the African wild dog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog)

@sberry: There are only a few dinos which could be placed together, because they must match in place and time. But I have no space for a dio like this. My Afrovenator/Jaobaria and soon Allosaurus/Stegosaurus diorama are problematic to place them on exhibition. Usally I sort them like a evolution tree with bones as branch. But meanwhile the network is so dense, that I need to present them by families. May be I will place Allosaurus on a single standard mini-dio, and use the base for my in bulit Giraffatitan.

Good work, nice for the eyes.Very good painted job.I had the opportunity to see the bones (the museum of "Villa el Chocon" is very nice, and have many pieces, I still have T-shirt from it ) . The history of the discovery of these creature and his discoverer is very intersting too.

Yes, a time ago You had some freaky beasts in the backyards of Argentinia.

Next one:Troodon formosus, 1/72, Manuel Bejarano (Shapeways, FUD)Once again a small and nice dinosaur from Sen. Bejarano, printed by Shapeways.Troodon was probably omnivor (all-eater), so I decided to paint it like a Scarlet ibis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_ibis) with some blue as contrast.

@Susofrick: merci! I am buisy to paint one of the next ones (Yangchuanosaurus) like a lion.

Furthermore I am working on my biggest dino model: Giraffatitan brancai. Formerly known as Brachiosaurus.Its nearly relaxing to work on areas larger than 25mm². Supersaurus is also on my screen and will be 50cm long. My Spinosaurus from Manuel Bajarano is also in the garage and is elongated from 18 to 22cm.

Protoceratops andrewsi, 1/72, Mixvs Minimax, is watching its nest.Its again a small 2-parts kit. One base (with casted legs) and the body.Paintjob-reference is the Springbok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springbok). BTW, this kind of camo (bright downside, sand/brown upside with contrast-stripe between) seems to be witespread in the recent fauna.

I really like your color schemes!I'm just reading "Dinosaurs" by Fastovsky and Weishampel. On p. 99 they say: "The murky crocodile-green of your parents' dinosaurs is a thing of the past: dinosaurs were colorful, brightly patterned animals." Every painted model you are presenting here is a great illustration of this concept.

I think with The Complete Dinosaur you have already the, yes, most complete book on the subject available (I haven’t bought it yet, because of the price, but I suppose it is a must-have). By comparison, Fastovsky & Weishampel have written a sort of introductory Dinosaurs 101, with a stong focus on the phylogenetic relations. If you are interested in this aspect, you might have a look at their book.

mmmhm...I need phylogenetic information for my kits, because I attach the family tree on the downside of the lid of the kit.My "Complete Dinosaur" edition is from 1997. I already thought about to buy a new edition, but 90,- €....

Yesterday, I came across this story here about the camouflage pattern in a herbivore dinosaur (you can download the pdf for free). Fascinating, in particular figure 4 which sort of summarizes the story! And, if the analogy to mammals holds, one might expect that at least the large sauropods might be of a rather dull coloring, like elephants today.

Thanks for the link!!! That is what I already assumed. As bigger an animal is, the camo gets unicolour, or just grey. It's a bit a disappointing view to the future painting of my Sauropods, but on the other hand is grey a good colour to work with.The countershading, as mentioned in the article, shows me, that I am at least not on the wrong way with my dino-camo.